Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 7 district · 10 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the [defendant] acted intentionally, recklessly or was substantially certain that severe emotional distress would result from its conduct; (2) that the [defendant’s] conduct was so extreme and outrageous as to exceed all possible bounds of decency and must be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community; (3) the [defendant’s] conduct caused the [plaintiff] emotional distress; and (4) [plaintiffs] emotional distress was so severe that no [person] reasonably could be expected to endure it.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Federal Deposit Insurance v. S. Prawer & Co. · Krennerich v. Inhabitants of the Town of Bristol

2. “Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pelkey v. City of Presque Isle

3. “[c]harges of child abuse leveled against a parent and ineptly handled strike at the core of a parent's basic emotional security, providing ample justification for the imposition of liability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tyner v. DSHS, Child Protective Serv.